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Sue & Bob Hobden wrote:

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I've been given some red chillies that were dried over 40 years ago; is
there any chance the seeds will germinate if planted?

Seeing as some seeds found in a Pharaoh's Tomb were germinated ...

I thought that was a suburban myth, but I could be wrong!

Some seeds are definitely very long lived, and there is evidence of
over a century, but I don't know of any reliable evidence of millennia.
I have no idea whether chilli seeds are long-lived.


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